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  • A New Model of School Reform

    May 21, 2014 |

    Greater Good Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Social-emotional learning (SEL) is transforming educational systems in Oakland by forming mentor relationships between adults and students. Unlike other models, though, the adults are the ones held accountable.

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  • The Lady of the Mangroves

    May 18, 2014 |

    Seychelles News Agency |

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    Response Location: Seychelles, Roche Caiman, Bel Air

    The 2004 tsunami that hit Asia caused significant damage in the islands of the Seychelles, destroying roads, homes, and shoreline. A teacher determined to restore her home through tangible action took a lead role in helping her students take conservation into their own hands by working to restore the mangroves that can protect their island from future storms.

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  • Fewer dropouts, more degrees: How Walla Walla Community College does it

    May 17, 2014 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Walla Walla, Washington

    Individualized advice and counseling, boosted by software tools, is helping hundreds more students earn degrees and certificates each year at Walla Walla Community College in Washington.

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  • Bailing Out Those Who Can't Make Bail

    May 16, 2014 |

    WNYC |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Thousands of New Yorkers are stuck behind bars for weeks, even months, because they can’t make bail. A non-profit fund that posts bail for clients has been changing that in the Bronx.

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  • Curbing Online Abuse Isn't Impossible. Here's Where We Start

    May 15, 2014 |

    Wired |

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    Response Location: United States, Santa Monica, California

    Harassment on the internet is more accepted but just as harmful as it is in person. RiotGames, a game publisher, decreased abuse by enabling its gaming members to decide and enforce community norms.

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  • A Grass-Roots Drive for Clean Elections in Karnataka

    May 15, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Karnataka

    B. Godihal is one of the thousands of communities in Karnataka that have worked to hold clean elections, stirred by a confluence of awareness campaigns by nongovernmental organizations and rising public frustration with candidates’ broken promises.

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  • Who Gets to Graduate?

    May 15, 2014 |

    The New York Times Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    Aware of the challenges low-income students face, University of Texas Austin is offering them extra hours of instruction, advisers, and peer mentors, aiming to create a new sense of identity for these high-achieving but high-risk students.

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  • Peer Pressure Can Be a Lifesaver

    May 14, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    Positive peer pressure - most specifically encouraging community influencers to lead by constructive example - has served as the key to adoption of various technologies and practices to improve quality of life for people worldwide. Whether it's using a new water purification device in Africa or encouraging mothers to breastfeed in South America, it has been behavioral psychology - the human need to meet social norms - more than other incentives that has instigated true and positive change.

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  • A Pennsylvania district takes on cyber charters

    May 13, 2014 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Quakertown, Pennsylvania

    The small rural school district of Quakertown in Bucks County has become a national model for how to use technology to transform the public school experience. The majority of students in the district take at least one class online and all ninth graders are given laptops they can take to college when they graduate.

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  • De Blasio Looks Toward Sweden for Road Safety

    May 12, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Sweden, Stockholm

    The rate of roadway deaths in Sweden is at an international low due to an approach called Vision Zero. Now the country’s approach faces perhaps its stiffest test: the streets of New York City.

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